Antonio Baños Boncompain | |
Birth Place: | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
Nationality: | Spanish |
Party: | Popular Unity Candidacy[1] |
Residence: | Barcelona, Catalonia |
Alma Mater: | Autonomous University of Barcelona |
Profession: | Journalist |
Antonio Baños Boncompain (born 1967 in Barcelona, Catalonia) is a Spanish Catalan musician, journalist and writer. In the Catalan parliamentary election of 2015 he led Popular Unity Candidacy - Constituent Call, a pro-independence left-wing electoral list[2] until he resigned in 2016.
Baños has a degree in journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. As a musician he's been a member of the band Los Carradine since 1989 and has released two records: Sospechoso tren de vida (2006) and Academia rocanrol (2016).
He is national secretary of the ANC and speaker of Súmate.[3]
Baños has written books and several articles, including: